Hi Chris,
Thanks very much!
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:05:31 -0500 Christoph Wickert cwickert@fedoraproject.org wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 10:17 -0500 schrieb Ranjan Maitra:
Hi,
Just installed Fedora 14 LXDE spin on my trusty IBM T61 Thinkpad laptop.
It was a clean install, however after install, I can not get beyond the login screen.
Here is what happens:
I input my user name for the Username: hit enter and then my password next to Password:
Both go away, but the big Login screen does not. (Basically nothing happens). Hitting the quit button to reboot/shutdown causes a flashback to the first login screen (and then the above process is repeated with amazing regularity).
Going in to console mode and logging in shows lxdm-greeter as a process running. Nothing else is out of the ordinary.
So you can login on the console with the same username and password?
Yes, I can. But I have found a strange workaround and that is if I switch to the console and back: i.e. doing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and Ctrl-Alt-F1 in quick succession.
Any suggestions?
Boot with SELinux disabled to see if it is the culprit. When the grub prompt appears, hit a key to get to the menu. Then select your kernel and hit "e" to edit. Select the line starting with "kernel=...", hit "e" again and add "enforcing=0" to the end of the line. Then press "b" to boot.
I added enforcing=0 at the very end of that line and no change. I waited for at least a couple of minutes and then tried my trick above. That worked.
I got some SELinux alerts as before: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/lxdm-binary "unlink" access on .Xauthority
Also, SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/setfiles access to a leaked /usr/local/maitra/.xsession-errors file descriptor:
In both cases, the notification does say: [SELinux is in permissive mode. This access was not denied.]
Note that I have always had my home directory in /usr/local.
If it is a SELinux Problem, please tell me what version of selinux-policy is installed.
3.9.7-7.fc14-noarch.
Regards, Christoph
Many thanks again and best wishes, Ranjan